linn meyers's most recent series of paintings continue her deep engagement with the power and presence of the individual mark, and invite the viewer to acknowledge the artist’s body as the laboring force behind these painstakingly rendered works. Made up of thousands of meticulously ordered hand-drawn lines and ecstatic arrangements of dots, meyers’s paintings point to diagrammatic visual languages outside the traditional scope of fine art such as topographical maps, cosmological charts, or psychological landscapes that seek an order or logic to chaotic phenomenon. And yet, a reminder that paintings archive the traces and actions of their maker, meyers’s paintings turn lines into drags, dots into touches, each one a record of the constellations of decisions, mistakes, tensions, and interventions that adhere to each mark. While meyers’s new body of work is not narrative in a traditional sense, these paintings hold together the monumental and microscopic forces and feelings that creation, labor, and daily experience all share and ask us as viewer to unfurl those layers in discordant simultaneity.
-- Dr. Jordan Amirkhani, Curator, Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, New Orleans, LA
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Known for her intricate mark-making and immersive drawing installations, linn meyers’s work has been the focus of solo exhibitions at prestigious museums, including the Hirshhorn Museum, the Hammer Museum, and the Phillips Collection, among others. With studios in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, meyers has established a distinctive voice in contemporary drawing and painting.
meyers’s works have been exhibited internationally at institutions including the AmorePacific Museum of Art in Seoul, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC, the Drawing Center in New York, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. The British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are among the many institutions that have acquired her work.
meyers’s artistic practice has been recognized with numerous honors, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, several DC Commission on the Arts fellowship awards, and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award. A graduate of The Cooper Union (BFA) and the California College of the Arts (MFA), linn meyers creates paintings and drawings that invite viewers to explore the profound physical and temporal dimensions of visual art.
meyers currently divides her time between Washington, DC, and Los Angeles.